Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] tell [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to tell her that , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Meg said : ‘ I tried to tell myself that . |
| 3 | she never , never could , and I said what I tried to tell you all |
| 4 | I promised to tell him all about my murder when I 'd written it . |
| 5 | Hilda , he wrote , when I ventured to tell her all her troubles were her own fault : You are so cold . |
| 6 | Only Frankie and Liza were in so I decided to tell them both what had happened . |
| 7 | I had told myself that heat was cleansing , because I had grown fearful of water . |
| 8 | I wrote to tell him this , and also referring to another book he had sent me , and I received a reply dated 19 March 1937 : |
| 9 | I wanted to tell her this was n't quite true , that I had had no choice , but her grey , tired look stopped me : it would hurt her too much , I thought , to feel I had not trusted her with the truth in the beginning . |
| 10 | ‘ You promised to tell me all about it . |
| 11 | ‘ It would have been useful if you 'd told me all this at the beginning . ’ |
| 12 | If you 'd told me all those years ago , I would have grown up with the idea of another mother , perhaps miles away , perhaps just around the corner . |
| 13 | I wonder if — I wish you 'd told me that , Alan . |
| 14 | I only wish you 'd told me this earlier . |
| 15 | If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey . |
| 16 | I mean if if you 'd told you that dad was coming down which |
| 17 | ‘ I love you , ’ she told him , as she 'd told him many times before . |
| 18 | Their lamb chops had arrived as she finished telling him this sad story . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , you did tell me that . |
| 20 | Oh you did tell me that . |
| 21 | She did tell me some things in her letters , but not enough . |
| 22 | After assuring me the her comm was entirely secure — no one tampers with Frejjis machinery — she had told me that odd things were happening on Uulaa . |
| 23 | ‘ I have a little headache , ’ she admitted , and that was the third lie she had told him that night . |
| 24 | Although she was not at ease herself and did not expect to be until she had told him all the painful things he would surely wish to know . |
| 25 | He wondered why she had told him all this . |
| 26 | He just did n't comprehend what she had told him this afternoon . |
| 27 | She had told him half of her worry , but the other half she had kept to herself . |
| 28 | There were so many ways she wanted to tell him this , all of them inadequate to express her feelings . |
| 29 | She wanted to tell herself that fitzAlan had taken her by surprise again , but she could not . |
| 30 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |